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August 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the…
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August 26, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.” — Antoine Lavoisier BIRTHDAYS: 1728…
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August 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton BIRTHDAYS: 1836 Bret Harte, author 1918 Leonard Bernstein, composer. Dance-off Scene (West Side Story), and Maria (West SIde Story), and Rumble (West Side Story), Gee Officer Krupke! (West Side Story) 1938 Frederick Forsyth, author. MISCELLANEOUS: GOODNIGHT,…
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August 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” — Stephen Fry BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Robert Herrick, English poet (“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”) 1683 Meinrad Spiess, German sacred music composer, Benedictine priest, and music theorist. Kyrie und Dies irae aus der Missa pro Defunctis 1816 – Daniel Gooch,…
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August 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.” — Arnold Toynbee BIRTHDAYS: 1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, born in Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Holy Roman Empire. Flute Quartet in G-major 1849 William Ernest Henley, English poet 1852…
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August 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury BIRTHDAYS: 1647 Denis Papin, Physicist, Inventor 1753 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, German-Dutch composer, brother of Friedrich Christian Ruppe, born in Salzungen, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire. Finale – Rondo (op.…
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August 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them…
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August 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, composer. L’Euridice, Prologo “La Tragedia” e Coro “Se de’ boschi” 1827 Josef Strauss, composer. Feuerfest (Polka francaise, op. 269) 1890 H. P. Lovecraft, Writer / Author / Novelist MISCELLANEOUS: HERE’S HOPING FOR CLEAR SKIES.…
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August 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore,And that’s what parents were created for.” — Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, mathematician and inventor 1848 Gustave Caillebotte, painter. 1871 Orville Wright, inventor. 1881 George Enescu, composer. Romanian Rhapsodie No. 1 1902 Ogden Nash, poet. 1906 Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor. 1921 Gene Roddenberry,…
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August 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve…
